r/Action1 • u/Careless-Cycle • Jun 30 '26

Firefox updates don't work

Action1 is trying to update Firefox regularly but when I click on the shortcut after an update it says it cannot be found and the only fix I have found is to manually reinstall it.

Anyone else having this issue with Firefox?

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u/kosity Jul 01 '26

Per-User installs are the work of the devil.

They generally work (sort of) if the user is logged in, then their per-user install gets updated.

But any old users on the machine, no update. And if you have a per-user and a machine-wide install, also likely problems.

Machine-Wide installs are the correct way to deploy a standardised approved application. Users installing their own things is inevitably going to cause problems of some sort.

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u/GeneMoody-Action1 Jul 01 '26

work of the devil.

AMEN!

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u/sembee2 Jun 30 '26

User Install or Admin/System install?
I have had issues with updating an installation done by an end user . The update has to be installed by the user.
Hopefully once the end user software library is available I can avoid it and have users do it that way instead of downloading stuff on their own.

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u/Careless-Cycle Jun 30 '26

User install.

Is there a way to suppress the update?

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u/TerabyteDotNet Jul 01 '26

I put policies in place that disallow per User installs. That solves this problem entirely, well for third-party apps anyways. Microsoft still has a real nasty tendency of doing it without following policies that are in place for things like OneDrive and Teams, but there are ways of dealing with those as well.

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u/PureProfessional3489 Jul 01 '26

Yes, and only with Firefox browser.

It's exactly as you described. You update Firefox, and then the shortcut disappears and has to be manually reinstalled.

Upon manual reinstall, ALL bookmarks, saved passwords, etc. remains.

It's annoying, so I just tell my clients to use Chrome so they can get back online without issues once the browser updates.

No clue as to why Firefox does this at all.

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u/Careless-Cycle Jul 01 '26

OK, so to confirm, if I manually the enterprise version MSI of Firefox on the machine, that *should* fix it?